List three/four sitcoms you watched when you were young or watch now. What society is expressed or is referenced in the sitcoms? What is normal in society? Reflect on the society.
"Friends"
"Friends" is one of the most watched and well known television sitcoms. The series revolves around six friends and their daily lives. It demonstrates what community and friendship looks like. I found that often it can be a little exaggerated in what happens in daily life, but it does display problems that can arise in a friendship and in life. The friends live in an urban centre, in New York City. Despite their jobs and sometimes their financial problems, they all live in nicely furnished apartments and are well dressed. They are all good looking people with mostly successful lives. The society that is referenced in "Friends" is a homogeneous culture, where all of the main characters are white with hardly any minorities being shown throughout the series.
Even though the series has ended for quite some time, it has made a large cultural impact that is still evident today. Whether it be old episodes still being played on tv, or people quoting a line off of the show, Friends is still evident in society today.
"Full House"
"Full House" is about a man in San Fransisco whose wife is deceased and has to raise his three daughters, with the help of his two friends. The sitcom is about family values, and shows a middle class family dealing with everyday life situations. It shows typical problems that a family may go through. People were able to relate to the characters and the situations. It was often cheesy compared to television shows today, but at the time, the situations may have been realistic. The series shows an all-American typical family (except the fact that there is no mother figure) and the struggles that a family goes through. Family values were the most important feature of the show and how to resolve situations within a family.
"Full House", like "Friends", also had a large impact on culture. The show ended four years after I was born yet it still was popular when I was growing up, which demonstrates that it impacted children years after it ended.
"The King of Queens"
"The King of Queens" is about a blue-collar family in Queens, New York. Normal family and problems arise. This sitcom mainly deals with problems with parents and with relationships. It is the typical pattern where the women does chores and is not happy. Then the man screws up, but by the end they always resolve the issue. Out of all of the three sitcoms I chose, "The King of Queens" seems to be the most realistic and relatable, in that these are situations the everyday family or person deals with. Examples such as being laid off of a job, struggling with financial problems, and other issues that arise with the everyday blue collar family. It shows an average society, a couple living in an average house in Queens.
In all, the three sitcoms show the comfort of a middle class society, which most people bask in and seem to enjoy. They all are realistic in the sense that they show problems most people can relate to and how to resolve those situations. Whether it be problems with a friendship, in a relationship or family problems.
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